General Notes about Transaction Screens

The layout of all the screens within Transaction Management are similar.

• The top part of the screen displays the TP, GP, Transaction and a date range, the default is all for each category. To update the criteria, select Change Criteria.
  See Change Criteria for details.
• The relevant transactions list line by line, further details can be viewed, and in some cases, processed for each transaction by either double clicking on a line or by highlighted a line and selecting Process or View, depending on screen.

Details on the initial screen for each transaction are:

• Date - The date the transaction was created and transmitted.
• Transaction - These are abbreviated forms of the transactions that are relevant to the screen you are viewing.
  See Transaction Types for details.
• Surname, Forename, D.O.B. - The patient's details.
• GP - The GP code of the patient's registered GP. The GP code is made up of the GMC code, and the GP code.
• TP/HB - The cipher of the TP/HB (Health Authority) to which the transaction is transmitted.
• File status type - You can see the file status on some transactions screens. These are codes which denote the status of the file within the transaction / transmission process:
  • A - Audit Trail File
  • B - Daily Transaction Backup File
  • C - Completed Transaction File
  • E - Error File
  • I - Incoming Transaction File
  • K - Matched, completed APF/ REF Transactions
  • P - Daily Transaction Print File
  • S - Suspended Incoming Transactions AMF, DEF and REF awaiting practice approval
  • T - Daily Transaction File
  • U - Upload File
  • W - Unacknowledged Acceptance File (ie Waiting)
  • Y - On-line Archive file of valid APF/REF/APH Transactions; and Retrieved Archive of valid APF/REF Transactions
  • Z - On-Line and Retrieved Archive File